About the Project

This innovative, student-centered project aims to empower students, teachers, and families by building meaningful connections between education and community. Our goal is to engage students in learning while providing opportunities for them to develop important skills such as public speaking, communication, critical thinking, and teamwork. A selected group of teachers will work collaboratively together with students, sound editing technicians, and website developers to create a platform for a local school community to discuss student driven topics. In order to generate interest to reach a larger demographic of listeners, teachers and students will work together to develop topics and research pertinent background information to create an outline of questions. This data will then be used to guide interviews. Although these recordings will be based around student reflections and personal experiences, the community will also serve as the lens of focus. The intended outcome is to provide an opportunity for educational representatives to work toward building a more creative, inclusive, and equitable learning environment. By learning about current events, different fields of study, and topics relevant to themselves, students will develop a global perspective to apply real-life skills toward their future. Built into this plan is the development of a website, which the students will learn how to curate in order to provide a space for the local community to support this academically student driven project.